WCOP & WBZ

[Doug Drown]

I've always understood that when Back Bay was filled in, Boston annexed the
adjacent communities.  So Wikipedia's date sounds accurate.  -Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
To: "A. Joseph Ross" <Joe@attorneyross.com>
Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>;
<boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: WCOP & WBZ


> <<On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:30:52 -0500, "A. Joseph Ross"
<Joe@attorneyross.com> said:
>
> > Allston was part of the former town of Brighton, which was annexed to
> > Boston sometime in the 1970s.  There never was a separate town of
> > Allston.
>
> 1970s?!  Try 1870s, Joe.  (That always-reliable source of
> authoritative geographic information, Wikipedia, puts it at a
> reassuringly exact Januay, 1874.)
>
> -GAWollman
>